...even for the likes of myself with over 100,000 I still can’t figure it out. Followers are quite fickle, they will unfollow you instantly if you put a photo up that they don’t like, or that isn’t themed to your gallery.

If you think you have to please others, well it is not like that; a lot of artists make money after they pass away like Modigliani. They said he was wasn’t good enough, but now everyone wants him. It is always like that, sometimes you are lucky and sometimes you are not, but at least you are doing what you want to do. That is my advice.

I like art to look like it’s all perfect, like pop culture and that layer of glossiness, beauty, and perfection that we have in the media. My idea is to make beautiful images of a reality that may not be so beautiful.

...get out there, talk to people and show your pieces as much as possible. Eventually you will meet the right people and the right buyers, one thing will lead to an other. I don’t think there is a magic trick, just be open and sincere about what you do and if you enjoy doing it then don’t quit.

Just go for it and keep going for it. Just keep doing things and keep doing what feels right. You have to be yourself, it’s not something where you benefit from trying to do other people’s ideas or even your own old ideas. You have to recognise where you are and do the right thing for you at that point in time.

...when people see my paintings they say they have a spiritual quality that they can lose themselves in and dream into. That is the essence of what I am trying to do now. They are landscape based, but I prefer to call them moodscapes.

I’m an embroiderer and I like to push embroidery, so it’s not a simple stitch on fabric. I like the fabric to fall into a more sculptural realm; something that it wouldn’t be if the embroidery wasn’t there.

I have always liked it, the on/off binary coded nature of it. That’s a square, okay there is not much going on, but coupled with different squares of varying sizes and colours, something starts to come to you.

These ones are purely abstract, they aren’t meant to represent anything. What I like about abstract art is that the human brain is so attuned to looking for patterns and looking for shapes that you can look at an abstract painting and each time you look at it you will see something in the form, and it will perhaps set off an emotion in you.

I quite like burning into the wood; I like that instead of applying a third medium on top of it. With pyrography you are digging into the surface and as you are burning into it it creates a different texture.